Freehand Kawaii Cherry Pie & Half Moon Nail Art

Allo polish Pals!

How are you all doing today? I hope you had a faaaaantastic weekend. Our was quiet but delightful – I'm waking up everyday at 6.30am, happy, content and ready to go. I'm still pretty OCD with my lists but I feel like its not ruling my life any more, it's more that I am ruling the lists and ticking things off with a sense of accomplishment at the end of the day.

Anyway! Today's nail art must have been done just after my last visit home.. so sometime in April! This isn't the last one from April either but I had to keep pushing these posts back for reviews and such.

Here's my cherry pie nail art! 


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Freehand Half Moon Holo Fish Bowl Nails!

Allo polish Pals!
How are you all doing today? Did you have a great weekend?

My nails are shot. We worked a lot on clearing Mr Bravo's Grandma's house, restoring the wooden floors, weeding the garden and putting the stairs back to their original shape. My nails have not enjoyed all the chemicals and hard work; Luckily they look ok in these pictures but you may notice it in my upcoming posts. I'm doing my best to give them plenty of TLC and get them back to how they were.

Anyway! Today's nails are inspired by the weekly challenge on Tiny Canvas – We had to create half moon manicures and I was thinking really hard (like really hard!) to think of how I could do a half moon manicure with a twist. I  decide to try and paint inside the half moon!
I had so many idea's on what I could put within my half moons... Mountains, full on scenery? some kind of  rainbow acrylic-gradient? For some reason I settled on a fish bowl idea!

I'm not all that happy with the out come of these but I'm not going to be too hard on myself. I don't need to give myself a hard time but I just couldn't get the half moons smooth with my acrylic at all. In hindsight rather than starting them in blue I should have began in white.

The polishes I used for this manicure are Mezmris Nail Lacquer's basecoat, 'Armor Up', The Body Shop's...[Brain Fail]  and Polish Me, Royalty's 'Unicornacopia' for the twinkly holo top coat. I finished by sealing it all in with my Mezrmris Nail Lacquer top coat, 'Armor'.

What do you think of my fishy nail art? If you ever find yourself looking for manicure prompts or idea's I highly suggest joining Tiny Canvas – the weekly challenges are so fun and not at all mandatory!

Don't forget to have your say! Have you ever had a half moon manicure before? Do you think these are original or just plain silly?

Have a beautiful day, my friends! I'll catch you again on Wednesday!
Love
Ithi
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Harsh Vibrancy With A Mixture Of Everything

Allo polish Pals!
How are you today? Happy mid week to ya! This week is flying by but then again they all seem to be! I'm excited that next month I'll be visiting my family back in England ~ Yay! Also it will be crazy here tonight in Holland as Argentina are playing against Holland – I'm not a huge football fan but I do love how patriotic everyone seems here with celebrating their team! Last night I came up with a manicure which I really wasn't sure about but strangely enough it began to grow on me. I decided to recreate it today (I'm pretty much a lazy arse right now since I can not move so much with the pain to my ribs) to see what you guys think. Here's my blue, green and black creation with half moons and straight lines!


On all my nails (Except my ring finger) I began with two coats of Yes Love's Black polish, I then used a reinforcement ring to tape off my half moon shape and applied Yes Love's #007 (Or Kermit green as I prefer to call it) Next I used striping tape to add straight block lines of Anny's 'Blue Bikini Girl' and sponged on a little of Color Club's 'Cool Metal' to the tips. Finally...! For my ring finger I started with two coats of Yes Love #007 and again used the same black to create a half moon. I then applied B.O Calabash's blue sequin glitter on top.

So what do you guys think of this manicure? I don't think I have paired straight lines with half moons – do you think it works or is it OTT?

Have a great evening!
Love
Ithi
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Day 18: Half Moon Nails

Allo polish Pals!
Wow, didn't the weekend fly by? Bring it back! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend, what did you get up to? I had a super spring clean today and am feeling pretty tired, I decided Monday might be my new Sunday – I deserve a lie in tomorrow! So for the 18th day of the 31 day nail art challenge I needed to create a half moon manicure. This is the simple manicure I created.



So on all my nails I started with two coats of Herôme's 'Kingston' which is a very light beige/gold with the most subtle holographic finish (I fail to get my camera to pick this up) and used reinforcement rings to create my half moons. I then painted on top with Orly's 'Terra Mauve'. Finally I used a fan brush to add a little few sketchy lines of Sinful Colors 'Dancing Nails' to add a little textured look.

What do you lovely ladies think of this manicure? Have you created a half moon manicure before; What colours did you decide to wear together?

Have a beautiful start to the week!
Love
Ithi

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Semi Precious Turquoise

Allo polish Pals!
How are you today? I hope your all having a fantastic weekend! Today I've been out shopping, tidying and working on some new nail art of course! Today's manicure is inspired by one of my favorite pieces of jewellery. Admittedly I don't own that much jewellery but I've been wanting to do a manicure based on my bracelet I bought in Zante, Greece a couple of years ago.

I started off with two coats of Color Club's 'Antiquated'. I then applied Essie's 'Naughty Nautical' in an oval shape to create a sort of half moon look, After that I took Jacava's 'Chillax' to create a gradient effect. I finished the look off by applying small blue gems in the center of the half moons.

I am quite pleased with this because this is the closest colours I've ever been able to match with my bracelet! What do you guys think of this manicure? Have you created nail art to match jewellery?

Enjoy your weekend!
Love
Ithi

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